Poetry in Anthologies: A Fierce Brightness: Twenty-five Years of Women’s Poetry (Calyx Books), A Life in Medicine: a Literary Anthology (The New Press), The Arduous Touch (Purdue University Press), Are You Experienced: Baby Boom Poets at Midlife (University of Iowa Press), Articulations: The Body and Illness in Poetry (University of Iowa Press), The Best of the Bellevue Literary Review (Bellevue Literary Press), Between the Heartbeats: Poetry and Prose by Nurses (University of Iowa Press), Bittersweet Legacy: Creative Responses to the Holocaust (University Press of America), Cracking the Earth (Calyx Books), Family Reunion: Poems about Parenting Grown Children (Chicory Blue Press), Good Poems: American Places (Viking); Grow Old Along with Me, the Best is Yet to Be (Papier-Mache Press), Imagine What It’s Like (University of Hawaii Press); In My Life: Encounters with the Beatles (Fromm International), Intensive Care: More Poetry and Prose by Nurses (University of Iowa Press), Mourning Our Mothers (Andrew Mountain Press), Poetry from Sojourner: a Feminist Anthology (University of Illinois Press) Stories of Illness and Healing: Women Write their Bodies (Kent State University Press); Ten Years of Medicine and the Arts (The Association of Medical Colleges), Truth & Lies: an Anthology of Poems (Henry Holt), Uncharted Lines: Poetry from the American Medical Association (Boaz Publications), and others.

Poetry in Nursing and Medical Journals: Academic Medicine, American Journal of Nursing, American Nurse Today, Annals of Internal Medicine, Ars Medica, Caduceus, Connecticut Nursing News, Contexts: a Forum for Medical Humanities, International Journal of Arts/Medicine, The Journal of the American Medical Association, The Journal of Emergency Medicine, The Journal of Medical Humanities, Kaleidoscope: International Magazine of Literature, Fine Arts, and Disability, The Healing Muse, Lancet, Literature and Medicine, Nursing and Healthcare Perspectives, Reflections on Nursing, RN Magazine, the Journal of the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, YearOne, and others.

Essays, Book Reviews, and Short Fiction in Literary, Nursing, and Medical Journals: Academic Medicine; American Journal of Nursing; Calyx; Discover Magazine; Literature and Medicine; Journal of Medical Humanities; New York Times; Literature, Medicine and the Arts Online Data Base; Lumina; Nursing and Health Care Perspectives; Rattle; Reflections on Nursing; Poets & Writers; RN Magazine; Journal of Poetry Therapy; Prairie Schooner; Salt River Review; Self Magazine; Social Issues and Health Review; So To Speak; Witness; and others. Book Chapters: “Nurses’ Poetry: Expanding the Literature and Medicine Canon” in Teaching Literature and Medicine, Edited by Anne Hunsaker Hawkins and Marilyn Chandler McEntyre. Modern Language Association: New York (2000); “Body Teaching” in The Teacher’s Body: Embodiment, Authority, and Identity in the Academy, Edited by Diane P. Freedman and Martha Stoddard Holmes. State Univ. of New York Press: New York (2003); “Cortney Davis’s Choices” in Editors’ Choices from the Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database, Edited by Felice Aull. New York University School of Medicine: New York (2003); “Nurse Practitioner and Writer: The Best of Both Worlds” in Nurse Entrepreneurs: Tales of Nurses in Business, Edited by Patricia Ann Bemis. National Nurses in Business Association, Inc.: Rockledge, FL (2004); “Cortney Davis: poems and commentary” in The Poetry of Nursing: Poems and Commentaries of Leading Nurse-Poets, Edited by Judy Schaefer. The Kent State University Press: Kent, Ohio (2006); “Chasing Fire Engines” in Return to the House of God: Medical Resident Education 1978-2008, edited by Martin Kohn and Carol Donley. Kent State University Press, 2008; “Where Did It Go?” in Untwining: perspectives on the death of a twin before birth, Edited by Althea Hayton. Wren Publications: St. Albans, U.K. (2007); “Becoming Flora: When the Narrative is Our Own” in Stories of Illness and Healing: Women Write their Bodies, Edited by S. DasGupta and M. Hurst, Kent State University Press, 2007, and other forthcoming chapters.

Organizations: Listed in Poets & Writers; poetry editor of “Alimentum: The Literature of Food” from 2004 to 2014 (www.alimentumjournal.com).

Awards: NEA poetry fellowship; three Connecticut Commission on the Arts poetry grants; grant from the Money for Women / Barbara Deming Memorial Fund; the Anna Davidson Rosenberg Award in Poetry from the Judah Magnes Museum in California; Center for the Book Non-Fiction Prize (for I Knew a Woman); the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry (for Leopold’s Maneuvers); American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Awards (for Leopold’s Maneuvers;Intensive Care: More Poetry and Prose by Nurses; and The Heart’s Truth: Essays on the Art of Nursing); An Independent Publisher Book Award Silver Medal in Non-Fiction (for The Heart’s Truth: Essays on the Art of Nursing).

Appearances: Readings and poetry workshops given throughout the United States, most recently in Pennsylvania, Washington DC, Ohio, Boston, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Connecticut and Denver. List of readings and workshops available upon request.